Keywords: Deeds
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca."
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St."
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Nova Scotia was re-created as an independent British colony following the British…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Essay by Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania Department of History…"
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"… uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers."
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"… and Subsistence Copy, account regarding deed from Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these…"
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"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."
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"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"
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"… was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead through possession—applying one’s labor to improve the land."
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"… kinship, leadership and placenames. 1670 Deed from Daniel or Derumkin and Robin [Ramegin] to James Thomas and Samuel York.Maine Historical…"
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"For Maine proprietors, “Indian deeds” signed with Native peoples in the seventeenth century became an important element of the argument."
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"… of wealth and, potentially, income.(3) Copy, deed from Peter and Martha Soullard to Proprietors, page 3 of 3, with copy of deed from Samuel…"
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"40, item 31. 3. James Berry and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers…"
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"… to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described vague boundaries. So, too, did the other potential sources of legal title: the…"
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"“‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."
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"1625-1824 Kennebec Purchase Deed, October 27, 1661Maine Historical Society The Plymouth Company, also known as the Kennebeck Purchase Company…"
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"… claims over Wabanaki lands, sometimes through deeds (or purported deeds) signed with Wabanaki leaders, and sometimes by vague agreements and grants…"
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"… preferred to issue unwarranted “quitclaim” deeds to residents. Ordinary homesteaders buying from one company often faced threats and lawsuits from…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It includes land deeds, depositions, maps, correspondence, broadsides, proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents…"
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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
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"… that colonizers often benefit from such as deeds and treaties, the foundations for federal law and authority."
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"… just becoming structured enough so that Indian deeds and title were only recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… proprietors locating copies of old patents and deeds within governmental archives, as well as the company patent appeal to the King in Council."
